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Accidental Aid Worker

9780994172747

Zulu Communications

Biography;Memoirs

Paperback

391 pages

$34.95

The memoir of a courageous woman on a quest to find love and places to belong.

Accidental Aid Worker is the travel memoir of the adventurous Sue Liu who stumbles into voluntary aid work in the wake of the 2004 tsunami during the civil war conflict in Sri Lanka. She teams up with a tour guide, a Catholic priest and a community of refugees and so begins a ten-year obsession with helping people in need. Through tragic events, Sue meets the larger than life Geraldine Cox and spreads her generosity to help orphaned children in Cambodia. This is a moving and real account of one woman's drive to survive and support others, while masking battles of her own. Along the way, Sue loses her grip on life and embarks on a harrowing journey through mid-life crisis, disconnection and chronic depression. She is forced to face inescapable truths about herself in order to navigate her way to the woman she really wants to be.

This heartwarming and thought-provoking story will make you laugh, bring you to tears, inspire a thirst for travel, a yearning to give back and pause for thought about what really makes us all tick.

Thank you for your generous, and indeed very special and personal gift of your biography, Accidental Aid Worker. Indeed, I have just commenced reading the early parts of this epic memoir, which touches many sensitive aspects of your life, with which I can identify. This unique journey is indeed rich with memorable characters and events and also with your sensitive reflections. I am certainly looking forward to travelling on this journey in your book as each chapter unfolds. My deep appreciation is with you for this generous gift. Best wishes in all your future endeavours and warmest regards.

This is the tale of a woman who bravely opens doors and thus has astounding adventures and enlightenments. All in the context of what can only be called an adventure story and an extraordinary life. - Thomas KeneallyAccidental Aid Worker is an epic memoir, which touches many sensitive aspects of life, with which we all can identify. This unique journey is indeed rich, with memorable characters, events and sensitive reflections. - Professor the Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVOThis poignant travel memoir, Accidental Aid Worker details the adventures, challenges, doubts, and tribulations Sue experiences as she finds herself immersed into the humanitarian and development world. The book extends far beyond the aftermath of the tsunami though. Through her experience in Sri Lanka, Sue finds she has a passion and skill for community work. Sue is also a woman of the world, with skills in demand by corporations. The pressures of humanitarian and corporate work, including the physical and mental stresses thrown up when doubts surface about the worth of one's work and life, are a compelling theme of Accidental Aid Worker. It is a brave and honest book. - Robyn HutchinsonWhat an amazing, honest, heartfelt, humorous and courageous book Sue. I am so proud of you for what you have achieved, endured, and overcome, both in your life in general, as well as in the writing and publishing of this part of it. You are truly an inspiration, as are the eclectic bunch of fellow givers that you have come across and formed relationships with over time. You all, both individually as well as together, help to reaffirm my idealistic faith that, for all of the greed, hatred, corruption and plain nastiness that we see in the world, there is also plenty of altruism, love, kindness, and simple goodness. - Lyn